Confronting the Impact and Challenges of the AI Era: Teachers' Creative Use of Digital Tools to Enhance Digital Teaching Competence

Abstract

Teachers' digital teaching competence is the key to the digital transformation of education. This study explores the factors influencing teachers' digital teaching competence by constructing multiple regression linear equations. The findings show that human-computer collaboration ability can significantly and positively explain 86.2% of the changes in digital teaching ability, which is the main factor influencing digital teaching ability. In addition, this study considered the effects of teachers' gender, teaching experience, professional title, and teachers' pedagogical content knowledge and critical thinking on digital teaching competence. Combined with the results of the study, it is suggested that teachers should emphasize on improving digital literacy and human-computer synergy in the AI era, innovatively use digital tools in the teaching process, and deepen the understanding of pedagogical content knowledge and the cultivation of critical thinking, in order to better cope with the opportunities and challenges brought by the digital era.